Links to Tobacco Organizations and Resources

Local

Arizona Prevention Resource Center (APRC)
The Arizona Prevention Resource Center serves Arizona as a statewide resource center, providing accessible technical assistance on a variety of prevention and health promotions issues through training, information dissemination and program evaluation.

Arizona Tobacco Education and Prevention Program (AZTEPP)
A resource site developed to disseminate to the widest possible audience information about Arizona’s Tobacco Education and Prevention Program’s projects and events.

Arizona Smokers Helpline
Learn to quit tobacco in the privacy of your own home. This site is full of helpful tips and resources to assist in the quitting process.

Tobacco Control in Arizona 
An aggregate of information outlining tobacco issues, legislation, activities, and more in Arizona from 1973 to present.

National

Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence
ATTUD is an organization of providers dedicated to the promotion of and increased access to evlidence-based tobacco treatment for the tobacco user through working toward training and standards for cessation specialist.

Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
CTRI offers five web-based modules for continuing medical education to help clinicians implement the clinical practice guidelines for treating tobacco use and dependence.

Circle of Friends
An initiative led by American Legacy Foundation to offer support for women smokers who want to quit.

Helping Young Smokers Quit
The national Helping Young Smokers Quit (HYSQ) study will be looking at a wide mix of practices now being used by youth cessation programs to determine what works.

National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit
A coalition of diverse organizations joining forces to improve the health of this and future generations by increasing the number of pregnant smokers who quit.

North American Quitline Consortium
A collaborative of quitline professionals from health departments, service providers, researchers, and national organizations in the United States and Canada working together to increase access to and the effectiveness of quitline services that help people in their attempts to quit smoking.

Pacific Center on Health & Tobacco
A five-state coalition of agencies and state health departments working to implement comprehensive tobacco cessation programs in their own states and collaborating to provide the support and technical assistance needed for other states to design and implement effective programs.

Save Our Daughters
Information on women and smoking and ways to reduce tobacco's impact on women and girls.

Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
A national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at the University of California, San Francisco with a mission to raise the number of health professionals and health care institutions that successfully help their patients to quit smoking

American Cancer Society: Tobacco and Cancer
Part of www.cancer.org, this site provides tips for quitting smoking and explains the Great American Smokeout. You'll also find information on the effects of tobacco use and current laws about smoking.

American Lung Association: Tobacco Control
The Tobacco Control section of www.lungusa.org offers general information about quitting smoking smoking and tobacco control as well as specific information for women and teens. Visitors can easily link to the State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Iniatives report which provides data on youth access laws, smokefree workplaces, cigarette taxes, and state spendning on tobacco control programs.

Great Start
A free program for pregnant smokers who want to quit sponsored by the American Legacy Foundation.

Smokefree.gov
Online resource with tools, information, and support that have been effective in helping smokers quit, including state and national resources, free materials, and the best quitting advice the National Cancer Institute and its partners have to offer.

Cancer Control Planet
Online resource portal providing access to data and resources that can help planners, program staff, and researchers to design, implement and evaluate evidence-based cancer control programs, including useful tobacco control information.

CDC's Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
Hosted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this web page offers tips on how to quit, links to reports from the Surgeon General, research, data, and reports, and educational materials.

National Cancer Institute
NCI's Tobacco Control Research Branch is dedicated to reduce cancer incidence and mortality caused by tobacco use via a comprehensive research program which issues recommendations based upon research findings.

National Institute on Drug Abuse
Important information on nicotine and nicotine addiction from the federal leading the nation to bring the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction.

Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
An organization dedicated to stimulating the generation of new knowledge concerning nicotine in all its manifestations from molecular to societal.

World Health Organization Tobacco Free Initiative
A W.H.O. cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources, and action on the global tobacco pandemic that kills 4.9 million people a year.